The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Bermuda

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Under section 18 of PIPA, Access to medical records, you have the right to access personal 
information of a medical or psychiatric nature that an organisation holds about you.

In order to request an organisation to provide you access to your medical records, you must contact the organisation in writing, using the contact details provided in the organisation’s privacy notice and let them know what medical information you want to access.

However, there are a few exceptional situations in which you can’t access it your medical records, or your personal information kept for the purposes of, or obtained in the course of, carrying out social work relating to you.

An organisation may refuse to provide access to personal information if disclosure of your personal information would be likely to prejudice your physical or mental health.

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If an organisation refuses your request to access your medical records, you can ask the 
organisation to provide access to your personal information to a health professional who has expertise in relation to the subject matter of the record. The health professional will then determine whether or not disclosure of your medical information to you would be likely to prejudice your physical or mental health.